[Kde-accessibility] ANNOUNCE: at-spi2-atk 2.8.1 released

[Piñeiro]

Hi Bob,

at-spi2-atk is the communication bridge between an application that 
implements ATK (an accessibility framework) and an accessibility tool, 
like an screen reader. For example, GTK implements ATK, so thanks to 
at-spi2-atk, any application written in GTK, like Gedit, is accessible 
through Orca, an screen reader.

So, if you want your ATK-compliant to be accessible, you need that 
module. Having said so, take into account that KDE doesn't implement 
ATK. They have their own accessibility framework, and there are an 
equivalent bridge, called at-spi2-qt. Thanks to it, the accessibility 
support of several qt apps are improving, and are being possible to be 
accessed by Orca. So if you want to use Qt applications with Orca screen 
reader, you would need that module.

I hope have been clear enough

Best regards

On 2013-05-12 19:28, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Monday 15 April 2013 14:07:36 Mike Gorse wrote:
>> At-spi2-atk 2.8.1  is now available for download at:
>>
>> http://download.gnome.org/sources/at-spi2-atk/2.8
>>
>>Hello List,  I have advanced macular degeneration and am legally 
>> blind. I can
> barely read the screen or my keyboard. My wife is typing this for me.
>
> I use open suse 11.3 and 12.1 with KDE3 and 12.2 with KDE4. I much 
> prefer
> KDE3. I use festival and espeak for TTS and Kmag. But each of these 
> has
> limited use.
>
> I saw this announcement back in April and am trying to figure out
> what it is.
> I understand that it is a D-Bus application, but I don't understand 
> what it
> does to help my accessibility. Is it a user or developer application?
>
> I visited the download site and saw that it is a Gnome application. I 
> also
> visited the WIKI site and it appears to be for developers.
>
> My question is can I, as a user, download and use this application,
> to better
> enable me in the use of my computor. I would also like to know how it 
> will
> aid me specifically.
>
> Bob Stia
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